"I'll tote the odiousness outside. “Why will you not be sensible? Go back to
your old life and your old friends, and forget all about Paris and this absurd
delusion of yours. One, by
perseverance and industry shall obtain fortune, credit, and the highest honours;
while the other by an opposite course, and dissolute habits, shall eventually
arrive at Tyburn. How will I get an Englishman to wed me if they know that I
behave not at all comme il faut?’
‘Perhaps the Englishman in question will not care,’ suggested Prudence, with a
twinkle in her eye for which Melusine was quite unable to account. ‘I
lived with the Valades for some years. And what was singular she did not recount to the doctor that
morning's adventure. “Oh, theories! Being in love is a fact. When were
you last confessed, Sir Rowland?" he added abruptly. Told you how it would be. What brings you here?”
“I’m here to see my uncle. Sheppard found it; and, as no one opposed her, she
at once took up her abode there; nor was she long in discovering that the dreaded
sounds proceeded from the nocturnal gambols of a legion of rats. Already the seed of a tender dream was
stirring. ***
Madame la Comtesse de St Erme regarded the English major with a lacklustre
eye, Gerald thought.
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